Bill Clinton (William Clinton) Quotes

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

Bill Clinton

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• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Love
  • Together

• You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Fall
  • Down
  • Eating

• For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Stand

• Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Become

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Cold
  • Everyone
  • Too Much

• My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Reality
  • TV
  • Nosey

• I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Matter

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Thanks
  • Resilience

• Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

  

  Mao Zedong

• Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.

  

  Sam Harris
  • God

• Perhaps we should warn you that there is one thing you won’t read, and that is a pat answer for the problems of life. We don’t pretend to make this a spiritual or psychological patent-medicine chest where one can come and get a pill of wisdom, to be swallowed like an aspirin, to banish the headaches of our times.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual

• In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • May
  • Morning

• I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Child

• I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Present

• In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. And she was at President-elect Mandela's side in Johannesburg when he claimed victory in South Africa's first free elections.

  

  Bernice King
  • She
  • Mother
  • Free

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

  

  Jimmy Reed
  • Funny
  • Stop
  • Baby

• We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Progress
  • Victory
  • Free People